Italy has made good on its threat to ban all gambling advertising and sponsorships, while offering further details on how soon existing deals must conclude.

Monday saw Italy’s Council of Ministers approve the latest draft of the new coalition government’s so-called Dignity Decree, which includes a blanket ban on all gambling advertising and sponsorships, regardless of the medium through which they’re promoted. The decree must now be approved by the full parliament within 60 days.

The ban is scheduled to kick in on January 1, 2019. Before the vote, Deputy PM Luigi Di Maio, who also serves as Minister of Labor and Economic Development, indicated that the decree would allow existing advertising and sponsorship contracts to continue although they couldn’t be renewed.

After the vote, Di Maio (pictured) claimed that the government would give gambling operators “a few months” to resolve their existing contracts. Francesco Silvestri, vice-president of the Five Star Movement party in the Chamber of Deputies, subsequently claimed that this transitional period “will last at most until June 30, 2019.”